"Congressional Democrats are between a rock and a hard place. They
desperately want to pass a bill they can label “universal coverage,”
but they have no coherent plan for making health-care provision more
efficient and less costly. Thus, expanding coverage with new federal
subsidies for a large segment of the population in the current cost
environment is prohibitively expensive. Presented with these facts,
the lead Democratic Senators could have chosen to write a more
sensible reform plan focused first on building a functioning
marketplace in which cost-conscious consumers would drive out
unnecessary costs. But, instead, they have decided to plow ahead with
their “universal coverage” plan, only now they want to impose the high
cost of it on struggling workers. Their only hope is that the bill
will pass before the public discovers what they are up to. "

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